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Londoners will get a chance at sharing the UFC fighting experience Saturday when the UFC rolls into town.

No, it isn’t an ultimate fighting card, but the UFC is as good at marketing as putting on cards and they’ll be marketing the heck out of their product at Covent Garden Market Square Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It’s called the UFC Experience.

“The UFC really likes to go into markets where they haven’t been holding a card to promote the product, show fans what it’s all about and see what kind of interest there is,” said former UFC fighter Mark Hominick, long-time featherweight title challenger. “They want to show the UFC is in the community. They want them to be part of the experience, from kids all the way up.”

Hominick is retired but along with Sam Stout and Chris Horodecki, who continue to compete, they operate Adrenaline Training Centre in London. Along with being a gym and fitness facility, the three work with fighters interested in a career in the UFC.

Hominick will be at the UFC Experience along with John Dodson, the No. 1-ranked UFC flyweight, local Chad Laprise, a UFC lightweight fighter and the Ultimate Fighter Nations welterweight champion, and Stout, a lightweight in the UFC.

“There will be life (demonstrations) so our gym will be doing martial arts demo along with other groups,” Hominick said. “There will be questions and answer sessions, autograph sessions. You can hold a UFC belt and get pictures with that. There are fitness challenges. You can play the UFC video game. Basically they take over the downtown and give you the whole UFC experience.”